Lugol's Solution Dosage (Iodine)

I have 2% lugol's solution. The answer I'm looking for is "a drop contains this amount of iodine and that amount of potassium iodide" and "you should start with x # of drops and work your way up to x # over time" Yeah, make it easy for us please. Do you usually take it in water?

All I can find is lengthy philosophical articles about iodine and lugol's and thyroid issues. I purchased a 2% lugol's solution and just want to know how much to take! I know I should be starting with about 250mcg and working my way up. I started with kelp caps and have worked my way up to about 900-1000 mcg per day on that but taking big handfulls of kelp caps is getting old.

Yup, and even for folks on the west coast of the USA, it would take several days for the fallout to reach there, and even then, it would be exceedingly minute. It's not the iodine that you should worry about, it's other stuff with longer half-lives like cesium.

For people who need to carefully control iodine (either limit *or* get more), it can be hard to control the dose with iodized table salt. While there is a purported % of DV on it, depending on environmental and storage factors, the iodine can dissipate over time. Many multivitamins have iodine also and can be an issue. Seaweed, again, gives one no control over dosage plus there are concerns over radioactive iodine being present in it it now, esp. Pacific seaweed after Fukushima disaster.

Sorry if my post came across like saying sea veggies cause hyperthyroidism, that's not what I meant. I agree with you, I'm sure one would need to truly over-do them to go that far. Good info on how KI degrades when moisture is present, I learned something new today :)

Yes, some iodine is better than none. Folks should use iodized salt (well, I don't, but meh). KI by itself is stable, but as soon as it gets wet, CO2 comes along, you start generating elemental iodine which is lost to the air. You'd have to really over-do sea veggies to swing from hypo- to hyper-thyroid I would think.

Some iodine is better than no iodine; which is the case for many people using salt which does not have iodine. Iodine is typically added in the form of potassium iodide which is pretty stable. And for people that are borderline low in iodine, or may be suffering form hypothyroidism, iodized salt can bring them back to normal, healthy ranges, without overdoing it and causing hyperthyroidism.

Iodized salt is fine, but iodine content diminishes over time due to reduction of iodide to iodine, which sublimes away. Also, iodized salt is mostly there to avoid overt iodine deficiency, not to support optimal health.

I haven't tried it with kelp but I did put another type of dried seaweed in some broth and it was 'da bomb! However, I think I'd need an awful lot of seaweed to reach therapeutic doses of iodine. I'd like to ramp it up for a year or so before going down to a more natural, maintanance dosage that could be obtained from seaweed alone.

BTW I am a HUGE fan of seaweed salad. It's usually made from fresh seaweed (I think) rather than dried/preseved, which must be somehow better.

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Why don't you just use IODIZED SALT like the rest of the civilized world, you can buy a pound of it for less than a dollar. Or eat some seaweed salad if you want "all natural" iodine (not that there exists such a thing as unnatural iodine since every iodine atom on earth was created by nature).

Iodized salt is fine, but iodine content diminishes over time due to reduction of iodide to iodine, which sublimes away. Also, iodized salt is mostly there to avoid overt iodine deficiency, not to support optimal health.

For people who need to carefully control iodine (either limit *or* get more), it can be hard to control the dose with iodized table salt. While there is a purported % of DV on it, depending on environmental and storage factors, the iodine can dissipate over time. Many multivitamins have iodine also and can be an issue. Seaweed, again, gives one no control over dosage plus there are concerns over radioactive iodine being present in it it now, esp. Pacific seaweed after Fukushima disaster.

I've been taking around 5 drops a day for maybe a week now. Remember to start out low with iodine and work your way up, it could make you feel weird, especially if you have thyroid issues. I did too much at the beginning and it made my body temperature swing up and down.

I haven't tried it with kelp but I did put another type of dried seaweed in some broth and it was 'da bomb! However, I think I'd need an awful lot of seaweed to reach therapeutic doses of iodine. I'd like to ramp it up for a year or so before going down to a more natural, maintanance dosage that could be obtained from seaweed alone.

BTW I am a HUGE fan of seaweed salad. It's usually made from fresh seaweed (I think) rather than dried/preseved, which must be somehow better.